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Summary: different, and thought provoking
Review: my definition of a good movie, is one that can change your mood, that can make you think, and put you in amother place. this movie did it for me. my friend told me it was boring and that i wasted my money renting it, but after i saw it, which was not long ago all, i was very glad i did watch it. The characters were origonal, and al unique. While the main character's problem/conflict was never crystal clear, nor did he completely overcome/solve it, i thought that the movie made you think, and kind of put you in a daze for a while. I recomend this movie to anyone who stuggle with life, and other things, or anyone who is open to different, creative movies.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: There are certain movies that you get a lot more joy from, if you know the director, espacially if he/she is an auteur. Martin Scorsese is one of those, and I guess that I wouldn't have loved this movie so much had I not seen Raging Bull, Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. Not that this is a bad movie on its own. It has just as much worth, but if you know a bit of Scorsese you might get a little extra "umpfh". In terms of Scorsese though, I would like to say that this is arguably just as good as Taxi Driver, while not as good as either Raging Bull or Mean Streets. It is a beautiful movie. You can feel how lovingly it was made. From the great prefomances of the actors like Nicolas Cage, John Goodman, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore and Marc Anthony(!), to Paul Schrader's both wickedly funny and touching script, to the streets of New York, that we see from the disapproving eyes of the director. One of its beauties is exactly that- we see New York by Scorsese again. We see the dark alleys, the dangerous shadows, the red fumes coming from the asphalt and the sin-filled streets that we saw in Taxi Driver. And like Taxi Driver, and Scorsese's other two pictures I mentioned, we find a character looking for redemption, namely a great Nicolas Cage. Yet there is a great change in this movie- and if you haven't seen it, don't read further- namely that the character DOES find redemption. In none of the movies by Scorsese I have mentioned does that occur, with the possible exception of Taxi Driver, yet I am one who believes that the ending is merely Travis Bickle's dream. So for the first time in the streets of New York does Scorsese find something optimistic, something worth the entire struggle. Something good. That is what affected me the most- Cage with Arquette as we identify the first clear rays of sun that shine on them- and the first rays of sun in Scorsese's streets.
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Summary: Finally, a great movie, and a wonderful love story.
Review: I had postponed viewing this film because I assumed it would be merely competently-directed, ably-acted, slice-of-life realism, impressively done but nonetheless predictable and depressing. Shame on me for underestimating both Scorsese and Cage. This is not the sensationalistic, exploitive violence of "Cape Fear" or the depraved and self-destructive Cage of "Leaving Las Vegas." The film rises to the level of poetry, metaphor and archetype, becoming an ultimately illuminating journey into the heart of darkness of the spiritually-alienated self. Cage's role as a rescue squad worker in a fatalistic, doomed world takes on at once a Christ-like and Everyman quality. He must decide who to "let go" and who to "save," a decision which, either way, can be made only at the cost of sacrifice, anguish and personal pain. Scorsese's subjective camera searches out not merely the burned-out face of Cage but numerous instances of sordid black humor that make the grimness not only bearable (as in "Pulp Fiction") but, paradoxically, spiritually revelatory (forget "Pulp Fiction"; think Flannery O'Connor). Moreover, the Elmer Bernstein score, subjected to unremitting "wow and flutter," evokes the score of a 1940s Italian neo-realist film and at the same time a transcendence of a world whose surfaces are merely "real." If this is not the most memorable, worthwhile film of the last 10 years, it certainly has a final shot that is, a shot worthy of Ingmar Bergman. After the whirling cinematography, breathless editing, and nightmarish vertigo that constitute the majority of the film, Scorsese ends with a protracted two-shot of Cage and Arquette embracing in a triangular composition. The stability of the shot mirrors and, in fact, conveys Scorcese's life-affirming message in a film that is more than anything else a "love story," in fact, one of the deepest, most unflinching protrayals on film of what it means "to love" someone.
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Summary: This is one of the worst movies I have EVER seen PERIOD
Review: I know I know its a Scorsese movie and I respect that and him for all his other works but not this one. He tride a different approach to making a movie, that some will like but from all the people that I have talked too that have seen it and the 5 people I went to the theater with to view the movie none of them liked it including myself. Obviously from the reviews/opinions I have read there are those that like the movie and thats great, but rent it before you buy..
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Summary: Recommendable...
Review: a highly recommendable film by a remarkable team of film-making, director martin scorsese and screenwriter paul shrader. what i was most impressed is the creativity of scorsese and his spectacular way of shooting the film. nicholas cage gives a perfect performance, even surpasses that in leaving las vegas and should have got a nom in oscar. his wife, patricia arquette also does a good job, much better than that in stigmata. beautiful photography work and effective music. fantastic! p.s. i awarded the poster of bringing out the dead as the best film poster in the 1st jason awards (jasononline.com).
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Summary: WHAT WAS SCORSESE ON TO MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
Review: I could not watch this film and take it seriously. There seemed to have been no script. No point. Nicolas Cage is a burned out ambulance driver. He is tired, fed up, and starts to see ghosts. His fellow ambulance drivers are a strange bunch of people. Cage meets a strung out character played by Patricia Arquette when he tries to save her father's life. But there is no plot really tying him to any of the other characters. There is no story, and this is the least compelling film I have seen in years. The soundtrack was probably the most interesting part.
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Summary: A Glimpse At the Life of Paramedics
Review: This shows the true stress of what paramedics have to go through. Very well put together movie with good acting showing the life of a paramedic who is on the brink of insanity. Thought it was a very good movie which definately deserves to be watched at least once.
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Summary: Rent it before you buy it...
Review: I gave it a 2 stars because yes I liked it for the reason it does really show the burn out of the EMT profession (and in the health field in general), in that he's seeing more people dead than alive. But I only gave it a 2 because nothing else happens in the film. It just goes back and forth of Cage's character going 'nuts' because of the outcome of his daily/nightly job. There is no real plot other than the general burn out. I would suggest, at least, renting it before buying it-though I don't regret buying it, it's just not for everyone. Especially to watch it over again.
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Summary: rent it... and rent a backup while you're at it
Review: well, i hate to be the wet blanket of the bunch. everyone seems to love this movie, but i am not as taken by the quirkish effects. i see (and appreciate) the underlying message of the film, and i'm glad to have watched it; but the experience came at the price of 2 hours of boredom. i kept saying to myself "it's GOT to pick up soon", and hoping it would get better - then the credits started rolling. the movie was more message-driven than plot-driven, and while the stop-frame effects helped build feel & atmosphere, they came off as cheap and unoriginal. i love offbeat movies (pulp fiction, being john malkovich, high fidelity) but this one left me totally unsatisfied. think twice before plunking down that credit card - go rent it first (on a night when there's NOTHING ELSE to get!)
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Summary: Bringing out the dead
Review: I have to say that expect something when I see a Cage movie, I expect a lot. This movie delivers it all. From the sound track to the eclectic cast. Just to be fair I will watch any movie with Patricia Arquette, but I watched this one many times over. I also bought the soundtrack, which accounts for a large portion of why I like the film so much.
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